Celebrating 40 Years

April 14, 2019

An Interview with Nass Co-Founder, Robert Faggen ‘82

Learning about the origins of the Nassau Weekly and how its first writers carved out a new journalistic space on campus in 1979.

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Nassau’s Birth

Considering how the Nass has simultaneously transformed and remained the same.

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The First Days of Nassau Weekly

“It set for me a prime model of the meaning of a labor of love.”

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“The Nassau Weekly felt like a really grown up thing, probably the first for me.”

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Remarks by the designers of the satiric science fiction comic strip of the Nass in 1979

Don Storm ‘80 and I wrote and drew “Verity,” a satiric science-fiction comic strip for the Weekly, thanks to Bob Faggen ‘82 taking a chance on us. The strip took longer to produce than we anticipated, and we were grateful … Read More

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Early Days of the Nass

“It had admirable staying power, since it it obviously filled a need.”

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A reflection by Todd Purdum ‘82, a national editor and political correspondent for Vanity Fair

“There was a sense that we were doing something fun and daring..“

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Sold on the Nass

Beginning the business team of the “nascent” Nass.

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One of the first Nass writers, on the importance of the paper and its unique vision at Princeton

“We wanted to practice a different kind of journalism—more feature-driven, accommodating to individual voices, and reflective of the campus experience.”

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An exhortation to “make something out of nothing”

“What new (ad)ventures are you creating today?”

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My Recollections of the Founding of Nassau Weekly

“I am quite overwhelmed and somewhat surprised that something that I helped get off the ground over as generation ago is still relevant and cherished over 40 years later”

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Reflections on the Nass by the 2013 Editor-in-Chief

“We amused ourselves, and, perhaps infrequently, others. We wrote screeds on music and books and movies and food at an emotional wattage only the undergraduate soul can muster.”

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Nass Memories

“I cannot do justice to the absolute force for good the Nassau Weekly was and is in my life.”

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Secretly Sexy: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? A Follow-Up Top Forty List, 15 Years Later

Reviving and revising the “Secretly Sexy” list of 2004 in 2019.

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Crossword #5

The Nassau Weekly’s fifth crossword puzzle.

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Pat MacDonald ’22 Reflection

“the Nass is really one of a kind”

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Violet Marmur ’22 Reflection

“I was attracted to this accepting community, a space for anyone to express themselves and their thoughts beyond pure academics.”

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Peter Taylor ’22 Reflection

“I had made a positive impact on someone else; I had connected through my words to another mind, another person.”

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Faith Emba ’21 Reflection

“My response was: ‘idk but it’s fun.'”

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Tess Solomon ’21 Reflection

“I hope and expect those feelings will only increase as I watch where it goes in the next forty.”

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Breaking My Nose

“But yes, dear reader, I was PMCed on a Tuesday.”

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Telescoping Memories II

“The Nass taught me to trivialize the serious, to take seriously the trivial.”

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Justin Gerald ’07 Reflection

“first part of Princeton that actually made me feel good about myself”

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Meredith Root-Bernstein ’04 Reflection

“I loved reading the Nassau Weekly.”

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Theola DeBose ’96 Reflection

“But it was just that, a wanting, and I had never been published.”

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Verbatim

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Overheard in Firestone

Woke Bridge Year Senior: This shirt is kinda appropriative but I'm out of clean laundry.

Overheard in McDonnell

NES major: yo, fuck the middle east tho…

Overheard in McDonnell

Premed, on chem professor: He's like, actively decomposing.

Overheard in Witherspoon

Emphatic Brooklynite: You just can't be Republican on the subway.

Overheard in the art museum

Nass EIC: Is there a wholesome phrase with “ass” in it?

Overheard in Wu

Freshman girl, accusatorially: Do *you* like Maria Garlock's aura?

Overheard on Ivy patio

Junior: I just wanted to take chocolate sauce and sprinkles and fuck up her whole life.

Overheard in Stone

History major with JP draft due in several hours: I just thought of something to do to procrastinate, but then I forgot it.

Overheard in New York

Gay male: I'm only friends with girls on birth control.

Overheard in an Uber

Terrace shaman talking about minimalism: It’s all about getting rid of things that aren’t actually necessary in your life.
Other Terrace shaman: What about a pasta maker?
Terrace shaman #1: No -- that’s necessary.

Overheard in Frist

Freshman washed-up girl: Yeah, I mean, I know he does Liars' club, but he's a good guy!

Overheard in the darkroom

Freshman girl: What would the girl version of your name be? Daniela?
Boyfriend: Uhh I don’t know, that’s kinda slutty.

Overheard at Terrace

Terrace senior, talking about modern concubines: Indentured servitude is coming back into style.

Overheard in Small World

Basic B: I'm dropping A's.

Overheard on R Train

5 year old WASP: Being scammed is a preference.